OTTAWA – 1977-1990 I come from a Zionist household. I learn from an early age that anti-Semitism is always on the rise, that another Holocaust is always just around the corner and that no matter what, Israel is always right. That’s a lot for a kid to handle. Twice a week, after regular school, I […]
Miles Howe
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Redux, reuse and recycle
When you dream, if you dream of co-op bike shops, chances are that the images that linger behind your eyelids paint a picture of something like Bike Again!. Luckily for Halifax, Bike Again! is a real place located in the Bloomfield Community Centre (2786 Agricola Street). Find the door with paintings of cyclists on it […]
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Halifax’s chicken warriors
Animal Bylaw A-300 allows for residents of the Halifax peninsula to keep rabbits, fish, lizards, birds, cats, dogs, snakes, spiders, and a veritable Noah’s ark of other creatures, great and small, as pets. But allus gallus domesticus, otherwise known as the common chicken, is species non-grata on the peninsula, and that has feathers flying among […]
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Halifax abuzz with urban gardening
The downtown core of any large Canadian city can be a drab, dreary affair. Aside from the odd weed poking its hopeful head through a crack in the pavement, you could go blocks without seeing anything green. Office towers and parking lots dominate the landscape. But to a growing number of forward-thinking urban growers, every […]
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The burden of biosolids
Sludge is a great example of onomatopoeia, a word that sounds like the thing it is. Sludge is that sloppy sediment that that contains all of a city’s sewer slurry. It’s not a solid. And while there are still water particles trapped in it, sludge isn’t really a liquid either. It’s sludge. And with the […]
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Best Artist / Band To Enjoy Quietly
Quiet Parade is Trevor Murphy’s baby, and what a lovely baby it is. “I’ve been playing bass in Halifax for six or seven years,” says Murphy, “but Quiet Parade is the band where I’m at the front of the stage and I write all of the songs. It’s very much is my pet project.” If […]
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Best DJ
No stranger to the winners’ circle, DJ IV is back this year as Halifax’s Best DJ. Currently on a cross-Canada tour with Classified in support of Classy’s newly released album, *Handshakes and Middle Fingers*, IV figures that he and the whole Halflife crew will triumphantly return to the Maritimes for a slew of Eastern shows […]
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Best Vinyl
Soaring violins, funky bass, tasty piano, tight percussion, conscious lyrics, even humorous call and responses with cellos; all these elements go into making The Caravan’s *Emerald City* the winner for Best Vinyl. *Emerald City* is the type of record you end up wearing grooves in, perhaps to catch one of vocalist Kyle McKenna’s quick and […]